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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I want to thank all the people who gave me the courage to dream.

First, though he is gone, Glenn Wright, my friend and the leader of the Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop at Michigan State University when I attended way back in 1984. And my other Clarion instructors: A.J. Budrys, Robin Scott Wilson, Harlan Ellison, Damon Knight, Kate Wilhelm, and Elizabeth Lynn. I must also thank, during my more recent writing career, literary writers and teachers Jerome Brooks and Carol M. Bly for their patient and gentle encouragement, which led me on the path back to graduate school.

And at Chapman University, I would like to thank the people who made my graduate education the experience of a lifetime: Kevin O’Brien, Pilar Rotella, Gordon McAlpine, Tony Garcia, Elizabeth Truax, Myron Yeager, and one of the kindest, warmest friends I’ve ever known: Chapman’s treasure, Joanie Sailer.

Also at Chapman, but more than that, is the man without whom I could never have finished my first novel: my friend and the best mentor anyone ever had—Jim Blaylock.

I owe my career to a man who I am now proud to call friend: Dave Wolverton, who first noticed my work in 1995 as anonymous entries to the Writers of the Future contest and who helped me make my first professional sale.

And thanks to my family and those I love, especially Alan Rodgers, the man in my life, my daughter Meredith, for occasionally allowing me to write and giving hugs and kisses, my aunt Donna, who rubbed several of my early stories for “luck” and they sold, and my grandmother, who is no longer here to see this book, nor any of my stories published. She told me years ago, “you’ll always write well, Amy, because you have heart.”